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Unrestricted Internet Access at a Young Age refers to a series of memes including image macros and TikTok videos that joke about the potentially negative psychological and physical side effects of having unrestricted access to the internet as a child. The earliest known meme about this was posted on Tumblr in late 2019 and became a more frequent subject of memes in the following years.

Origin

On December 11th, 2019, a now-deleted Redditor posted a Read, Nigga, Read meme to /r/memes[1] that references the potential damage that access to all parts of the internet as a child can do to someone, gaining around 80 upvotes before being deleted (shown below). This is the earliest known meme on the subject (shown below). The post was archived by awwmemes[2] that day.


Me made with mematic Read! Having unrestricted access to the internet at the age of 8 has given you a warped perception of reality Me *screaming* NOOOOOO!

Spread

On December 13th, 2019, Tumblr[3] user luxborn posted a Doge meme showing Doge browsing the web as a child, captioned, "OH BOY I SURE DO LOVE HAVING INTERNET ACCESS AS A CHILD IN THE EARLY 2010S I HOPE I DON'T GET IRREVERSIBLE PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN MY DEVELOPMENTAL YEARS," garnering over 57,000 notes before being deleted (shown below).


OH BOYISURE DO LOVE HAVING INTERNET ACCESS ASA CHILD IN THE EARLY 2010S I HOPE I DONT GET IRREVERSIBLE PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN MY DEVELOPMENTAL YEARS

On December 16th, 2020, Twitter[4] user @catalystnb posted an I May Not Show It meme on the topic, gaining roughly 130 likes in two years. On April 29th, 2021, Instagram[5] user tengulolita posted an image macro on the topic using an image from the anime Serial Experiments Lain, gaining over 5,000 likes in a year (shown below, left). On May 29th, Instagram[6] user mrgamer42069 posted a Worse Mistake of My Life meme on the topic, gaining over 30,000 likes in a year (shown below, right).


WHAT UNRESTRICTED ACCESS TO THE INTERNET FROM A YOUNG AGE DOES TO A MF CEDE DON'T HAVE UNRESTRICTED INTERNET ACCESS FROM A YOUNG AGE Google Sea Feeling Lucky Say "Ok Google" WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE

The idea is sometimes used in tandem with the Ryback Eating Chips meme. For example, on January 26th, 2022, Instagram[7] user pretentiouskinomemes posted a meme like this, gaining over 34,000 views and 6,100 likes in six months (shown below, left). On March 18th, Instagram[8] user douggiehouse posted a similar meme, gaining over 314,000 views and 23,000 likes in four months (shown below, right).



The joke also spread to TikTok in 2022. Some of the most popular relevant videos are set to an original sound that transitions from bright cheery music to somber music. TikTokers present a way that having unrestricted internet access while growing up traumatized them after the music changes. For example, on June 1st, TikToker[9] @sleepysaints posted a video about this that gained over 5.1 million views in a month (shown below, left). On June 20th, TikToker[10] @williesqued posted a video about being exposed to Best Gore at a young age, gaining over 200,000 views in a month (shown below, right).


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7104442560231542062
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7111340751677787438

On the same date, Twitter[11] user @_4YSL posted, as part of the She's a 10 But trend, "she’s a 10 but she had unrestricted access to the internet at a young age," gaining over 216,000 likes and 21,000 retweets in a month. On July 28th, Twitter[12] user @kzzrttt posted a joke likening the Chris-Chan trial to the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial for "people who had unrestricted internet access at a young age," gaining over 35,000 likes in a day (shown below).


bilatinman kio @kzzrttt the chris chan trials are about to be the depp vs heard trial for people who had unrestricted internet access at a young age 6:58 PM - Jul 28, 2022. Twitter for iPhone 4,079 Retweets 219 Quote Tweets 35.1K Likes

Various Examples


_pillowcake_ EVERY TIME I THINK OF A TALLER, OLDER, STRONGER LADY CALLING ME A GOOD GIRL" : I GET UNCONTROLLABLY HORNY (THIS IS PERHAPS A JOKE, MAYBE THIS IS COMPLETELY IRONIC, COULD BE THE TRUTH. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW) WHAT UNRESTRICTED ACCESS TO THE INTERNET DOES TO AMF Please Cotton stop being so horny on Instagram INFP @infpmemesdaily she's a 10 but she had unrestricted access to the internet at a very young age me at age 10 with unrestricted internet access watching a cool minecraft mod showcase AN being an unsupervised 8 year old in the 2010s sure is fun Hird &YTS.MX MARTYRS (2007, P. Laugier) SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (1975, P.P. Pasolini) BEFORE THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (1989, Michael Haneke) AFTER Click Here to read how a former Netflix filmmaker became a bodybuilder with one simple trick I IRREVERSIBLE (2002, Gaspar Noe) A SERBIAN FILM (2010, S. Spasojevic) *14 year old me with unrestricted internet access downloading movies with disturbing themes and scenes of horrific violence which are banned in several countries Q 4K li E CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980, R. Deodato) THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972, Wes Craven) INSIDE (2007, A. Bustillo) AUDITION (1999, Takashi Miike) HIGH TENSION (2003, Alexandre Aja) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971, S. Kubrick) POSSESSION (1981, A. Żuławski) GROTESQUE (2009, K. Shiraishi) SHREK (2001, A. Adamson) 10 year old me with unrestricted Internet access watching a beheading video.

Search Interest

External References

[1] Reddit – deleted by user

[2] Awwmemes – hate to admit it bro

[3] Wayback Machine – luxborn tumblr

[4] Twitter – catalystnb

[5] Instagram – tengulolita

[6] Instagram – mrgamer42069

[7] Instagram – pretentiouskinomemes

[8] Instagram – douggiehouse

[9] TikTok – sleepysaints

[10] TikTok – williesqued

[11] Twitter – _4YSL

[12] Twitter – kzzrttt

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big_king_smegma

The one talking about "Unrestricted internet access in the early 2010s" definitely highlights something important.

Being online in the early 2000s definitely fucked a lot of people up, but this was before people really knew how to hook people up to the ol' dopamine drip in one's early years.

I don't think it's causing fundamental damage as such, but the fact that we're getting further and further away from memories of a pre-social-media era sure doesn't feel good.

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